Your observation doesn’t address or take into consideration the differences in the recruiting landscape between then and now and retaining players.
No one said the team wasn’t improved.
My contention is the new rules (or no rules) make his job nearly impossible.
The landscape changes all the time, but Schiano has been in the game long enough to roll with the flow and find ways to bring in good players.
Also he has to overcome the negative publicity that seems to be a constant part of the media's handling when covering the football program and that part of the landscape hasn't changed.
Every program will have a retention problem so Schiano's Knights are not the lone ranger in that category.
It's just the defeatist attitude surrounding the RU FB fanbase makes them think Schiano is the only HC that has problems and that defeated attitude tells those fans he can't overcome them
Harder ,ye, but hard for some others too.
Impossibly , no the mission can be sucessful but don't expect instant gratification..
RU laid eggs against Iowa and Ohio State but against the Hawkeyes the D preformed well.
The RU O isn't much help with a 3rd string QB, with little experience, in charge and a suspect OL protecting him..
But despete all the moaning and growing about the season looking like a disaster, by some, the team is 3-2 and still in bowl contention.
One thing is many times programs step a little back during the time they are trying to improve , but the effort the team puts in makes a lot of their fans feel the program is headed in the right direction.
Recruiting , Portal & HS , can improve if this season shows RU headed towards a winning future .
Rutgers has a bad reputation because of it being l;ooked at as a loser by many , but Schiano overcome that before.
Greg2knows the landscape and right now is trying to seed a lawn that is in bad shape.
That he's done before asGreg1